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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Fibonacci & Golden Ratio Glossary

The core terms — the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence themselves, the Lucas numbers, the pentagon and pentagram, continued fractions, and the recursive thinking behind them all.

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The Golden Ratio in Nature Glossary

Where spiral and phyllotaxis patterns actually turn up — nautilus shells, sunflower seed heads, conifer cones and ferns, spiral galaxies and tropical cyclones, snails and chameleon tails.

13 entries

Art, Architecture & Design Terms

The people and periods behind proportion in art and design — Renaissance architects and theorists, M. C. Escher's tessellations, Bauhaus and Swiss-style design, and the manuscripts that carried the ideas forward.

12 entries

Mathematicians & Mathematical History

The people behind the numbers — from Euclid and Pythagoras through Kepler, Pascal, and Euler, to the 20th-century mathematicians whose work still touches Fibonacci and golden-ratio mathematics today.

12 entries